Month: May 2014

The Renault FT, frequently referred to in post-World War One literature as the “FT-17” or “FT17” and by some as the world’s first modern tank, was a French light tank designed largely by French industrialist Louis Renault, and was…

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Notations There were German reprisals against civilians in occupied countries during World War Two; in France, the Nazis built an execution chamber in the cellars of the former Ministry of Aviation building in Paris. Below, forces of the Interior and…

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Notations Jean refers to the newspaper, a daily called La France au Travail, which began publication after the invasion. Its slogan was “national communism” and, given milder censorship in the occupied France than elsewhere under the Nazis, was patriotically French. In an…

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Long before the colour version of Iron Moon was published by Print Media (and digitally by ROK Comics), Charlotte Corday aritst Keith Page developed an earlier version of the story which was changed dramatically when writer Stephen Walsh joined…

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Notations “La Bievre” runs under the fifth and thirteenth arrondissements of Paris, and was covered in 1912 after centuries of service to dyers, tanners and other crafts people. The river itself originates 33 kilometres from Paris in the Yvelines…